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A Plague of New Ideas: How Change Infects Us

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference , by Malcolm Gladwell. Little, Brown and Company, 279 pages, $24.95. Malcolm Gladwell is a David Macaulay of ideas. He won't tell you how...

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Thin-Skinned Founding Father-And a Great Junk-Bond Salesman

John Adams: Party of One, by James Grant. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 544 pages, $30. Any biography of John Adams that works anxiety, insecurity, worry and dread into its first paragraph is off on the...

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Who Killed Feminism? Let’s Blame Mommy

Many years ago, in the course of an otherwise high-minded conversation, a very wise, very distinguished publisher imparted what she billed as an unassailable truth: “Marriages,” she announced, “are...

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Who Killed Feminism? Let’s Blame Mommy

Many years ago, in the course of an otherwise high-minded conversation, a very wise, very distinguished publisher imparted what she billed as an unassailable truth: “Marriages,” she announced, “are...

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Miracle Makeovers: Nip-and-Tuck Unpacked

A few years ago, I spent an afternoon on the Upper East Side with a keen-eyed Frenchman during his maiden trip to New York. There were marvels aplenty, but at the end of the day he had developed a...

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Miracle Makeovers: Nip-and-Tuck Unpacked

A few years ago, I spent an afternoon on the Upper East Side with a keen-eyed Frenchman during his maiden trip to New York. There were marvels aplenty, but at the end of the day he had developed a...

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